They were trying to cope not only with losing a leader and a friend, but they had also witnessed his death in a rather horrific way,

It gives summertime back for the kids. I love camp, but I am going to be losing that because you can't go when school starts, and school will have started by that time. Coaches don't like (missing camp), but the trade-off is not worth it.

It hasn't been easy what he's had to do. The team's losing more and he's trying to keep the team in Pittsburgh. It's got to wear on you after a while.

It's real frustrating, I'm not going to lie. We keep practicing so hard, then keep losing. We just have to find a way, we can't start pointing fingers.

It feels great to finally break the curse of our (playoff) losing streak. I've been on this team six years and every year we've made the playoffs and lost in the first round. This is an amazing feeling.

(The losing) got old really fast. Now that we're having success, we don't want to go back to the way it was. We're doing everything we can to continue being successful.